My photographic adventures on the other side of the world

April 22, 2018

Copy, paste

As I was preparing my response to the photography challenge for this week I quickly realised how often I frame my images on simple and uncluttered motifs. So in order to satisfy the topic of prolific I had to turn to images I had taken in Japan over two and a half years ago, during the first formative months of my photographic journey. The first five images were taken in Kyoto, in and around the temples and shrines of the old capital of Japan. The sixth image was made in the Toshogu shrine in Nikko after the rain finally began to abate on the final day of our stay. I like the mix of orderliness and chaos in the repeating motifs in the images. I find it a good analogy to the human condition, at least in the attempt to create order and separation from the apparent unruliness of nature.

And finally a monochrome version of the Fushimi Inari gates image. The graphic pattern created by the sunlight streaming between the gates screams out for a black and white treatment, but at the same time the defining characteristic of the gates is lost…